I can't agree more! KDE & GNOME may look nice to your eyes, but they use a lot of resources and they pretty much render any average / mid-sized system useless.
I regularly use a number of heavy & demanding applications (SYBASE & ORACLE databases, VMWARE, etc.) and I recently decided to switch from KDE to WindowMaker only to see a significant improvement in responsiveness and performance. My recommendation to everybody: step away from those heavy window managers (KDE/GNOME), if you really want to use your systems to their full power (unless, of course, you have the extra money to buy the best CPU and lots of memory...). I wish Red Hat included some alternatives to the well-known heavy horses, like SuSE does (I don't want to go away from RH, though, because it is good and stable as a server...). I would like to give BlackBox a try... Where can I find RH-ready RPMS? Are there any? Regards, On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 16:19, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > On 20-Jun-2003/03:51 -0400, MWafkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The Reason - X, X and X again. > > > >I hate X. > > I doubt that X is the problem. It is more likely that it is the window > manager and/or desktop environment that is slowing things down. You can > demonstrate this to yourself by using lightweight window manager like > Blackbox. The difference is dramatic. > > GNOME and KDE have nice features, but they slow things down significantly. > > Tony > -- > Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D > AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> > Linux: the choice of a GNU Generation. <http://www.linux.org/> -- Panos Platon Tsapralis, Software Engineer, SAP-R/3 specialist, ABAP/4 developer, Registered Linux User #305894, Ximian Evolution (ver.1.4) on Red Hat Linux (8.0), Athens, GREECE, cell-phone: +306946462857, fax: +302108054420, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
